All the trolls are rather proving our point?

What do you think? Their need to goad and twist everything suggests to me that there are at least a sizeable minority that really hate women (or at least only like those that know their place). Their presence in the world is evidence to me that we still really need feminism.

Actually, if anything, some of you have probably argued with me on threads before about why people wouldn't call themselves feminists. I've always said I prefer not to. Watching all these trolls has made me rethink that. So rather than dissuading feminists, they are actually having the opposite effect.

we need feminism because a major new network has sympathised with the rapists, not the survivors.we need feminism because one in four women have been sexually assaulted (although this figure is suspected to be higher)we need feminism because one in four women will have been subject to domestic violencewe need feminism because one in three female murder victims, will have been killed by their partner.we need feminism because MRA trolls still think that we need to shut up and put up.

I agree that they are afraid. Afraid of women having opinions and talking about them without any kind of male input or need to include men in the discussion or defer to them. It would all be rather sad if it didn't translate into actual inequality for women.